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How 8 Gringos Gave a Speech at an Uzbek Wedding Where No One Spoke English
July 01, 2024
In June 2024, I had the chance to travel to Uzbekistan for 10 days, visit the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, and most importantly, extensively interact with my friend Amir’s family Although living in Uzbekistan and fluent in Uzbek, they consider themselves (ethnically) Tajik, as it is their first language...
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Reflection on Gitex Africa 2024
June 01, 2024
I was invited to give a talk at Gitex Africa covering some of the current state of AI research, and its relevance for the tech world. It was my first ever public talk in Morocco, and also my first one in Africa. There are several things I’ll take away with...
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3 Months into my PhD
May 20, 2024
I officially started my PhD 3 months ago, and while my current results make me feel like I only started yesterday, I have already gone through quite a bit, and learned a few things about what it means to do Science and to conduct a PhD. Below are a few...
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Sharing my experience of the ETH/UZH Neural Systems Computation Masters
March 27, 2024
I frequently receive messages on LinkedIn or Twitter to share my experience of the Neural Systems Computation (NSC) master’s program, so I decided to write a little blog post to share it with everyone. Disclaimer: I’m rather biased in my judgment — I am still at the Institute of Neuroinformatics...
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A Strange Summer Cocktail- Tolstoy and Sufism
August 31, 2023
Someone asked him: “Distraught fellow, what is this love?” The man replied: “Love is selling all of your wordly goods to buy a drop of wine.” Last month, I went on vacation with two radically different books in my suitcase: a collection of short stories by Leo Tolstoy, and the...
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Conducting an orchestra is hard.
September 19, 2022
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to organize and lead a concert series in London where we played Britten’s Simple Symphony, Mozart Divertimento k136 in D Major, and a strings-only arrangement of Mozart’s Concerto k466 in D minor (with the fantastic Adam Heron on the Piano). This was...